Norfolk and Western 611 thunders up the steep North Mountain grade under threatening skies.

It's Railway Days at Calgary's Heritage Park. CP 2024 is passing with the passenger train while CP 2023 waits in the siding to depart with the freight train.

The ground literally shook here with each revolution of the driving wheels, as No. 2102 headed upgrade toward Tamaqua and beyond with the first fall foliage excursion of 2023. The ground vibratio... (more)

The Colorado Railroad Museum has restored their Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad GP30 and has it on display. Such a great looking engine.

Crew members Chuck Trusdell and Shane Frederickson watch as Reading 2102's air compressors warm up.

The Northern Central Railway of York is a non-profit, Civil War-themed heritage railroad based in New Freedom, Pennsylvania. A reproduction 4-4-0 steam locomotive hauls passengers over 10 miles of... (more)

The first of four today's four steam trains to Silverton climbs up above Shalona Lake and into Rockwood.

D&SNGRR #480 leads a string of hoppers on a test run to Silverton.

Reading 2102 rests in Reading on a cloudless September morning prior to its departure from Reading Outer Station.

Meeting between two oldies at the crossing.

High plains drifter. An Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe local rolls across the high plains of eastern Kansas, just east of Abilene, at sunrise.

This image depicts AT&SF 3415, a Class 3400 P... (more)

AT&SF train number 3, the California Limited, is arriving Los Angeles California with smog present in the atmosphere, on August 1st 1940. Stare at that bell long enough and you can almost hear it ... (more)

Union Pacific train number 22, the Pacific Coast Limited, is seen near Cheyenne Wyoming in 1934. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Santa Fe train number 71 is departing San Diego California with four cars at 20 MPH in 1933. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Santa Fe train number 73 is departing San Diego California with six cars in 1933. Otto's speed estimate was 30 MPH. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.